Improved lap-board for dress-makers



dem Seite @Stent @dimite ROYAL L. woonunv, or LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 106,016, dated August 2,1870.

woog- IMPRovED LAP-BOARD PoR DRESS-MAKERS.

The Schedule referred toin these Letters Patent and making part of the same I, ROYAL L.' `WooDBURv, oi`-Lexington, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts,y

have invented certain Improvements in Lap-Boards for the use of Dress-Makers'and Seamstresses, of

which the following is a specification;` Y

Nature and, Objects of the Invention..

My invention consists of devices more fullyhcre-` inafter described.

x Description of the liccompmtying Drawing.

Figure 1 is a view of the upper surface of the lap?` board,show1ng the position oi' the measuring-rule,

pin-cushions, and emerycnshions.

Figure 2 is an end View of the board, showing the edge of a thinf strip of -wood, let in `for the purpose of strengthening the hoard.V

y.Figure 3 is an `enlargedview of a portion of Vthe ,imeasuring-rule,as marked upon theV board.

Figure 4 shows the construction of the board,lwhen.

made up of strips of-` wood,\of different colors, glued together. v f

General Description.

"lhelap-board may beef any desired size. -I con? struct it three feet long, twenty-one inches wide in the widest part, and not over `five-eighths of an inch thick.

About midway between the outer and inner edges, and lengthwise ofthe board, I make, uponf the upper surface of' the board, or upon Vhoth surfaces, with stamping-chisel-aud dies, a three-footmeasuring rule, bfiig. 1, which` is also marked off to sliow one-eighth l yard, one'furth yard, three-eighths yard, Ste., as may lhe seenin fign. l

At several convenient points. c c c, 85o., fig. 1, on

v the atsurface of the board, between lits outer edge and-the measuring-rule, I bore smooththree-eighth inch bit-holes perpendicularly quite through the hoard,

and afterward draw into said'holes, which are iirst moistened with glue, folded strips of' fine, firm woolen felt. These plugs of felt are afterward cutoff ush with the surfaces of kthe board.

Into the inner edge of the board, at the right and -left hand alike, I bore, perpendicnlarly, a bit-hole, an

inch deep or more, and as large as "the thickness of the board will permit. While this hole is moist with' glue, an enleryfcushion, made to` fit it closely, and so long as just to protrude and be easily seen, d d, iig. 1, is firmly pressed into it. Y

The hoard so constructed may, for all purposes not requiring the use of the measuring-rule, be used' equally well with either surface uppermost.

After the board is out to near its finished dimensions, I cut a deep groove in each end of it, say,- two inches deep, and into this, moistenedwith glue, press a closely fitting thin strip of hard wood, similarlyl moistened, with the grain crossing the grain of the board. The whole is firmly pressed together till quite dr f. This will tend to prevent the splittinfr or .l o

very firm, and will warp less than one cut in a single Vpiece from a large timber. I apply this well-known principle to the lap-board. I claimas my invention- The combination of the measuring-rule, pin-cusu@ ions, and elnery cushions, with the lap-board, constructed in the manner shown, viz., by letting strength- 1 ching-strips into grooves atthe ends, all substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

- ROYAL L. WOODBURY. Witnesses:

JOHN W. HUDSON, E. S. DODGE. 

